Millersville, Illinois

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Locust Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62557. The Survey maps it on the Owaneco quadrangle.

Millersville within Christian County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1947 USGS Pana quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Pana quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Litchfield quadrangle1:100000
1982 USGS Owaneco quadrangle1:24000
1998 USGS Owaneco quadrangle1:24000

In the county-history sources

9,180 words on this township

History of Christian County, Illinois, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Locust Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

In 18(i(i, on the adoption of township organization, this township remained unchanged as to its boundaries. At the election held April 3d, 1866, B. C. Cochran was elected its first supervisor; John W. Hunter and Philip Baker were elected justices of the peace ; and Daniel Orr and David Jarvis, constables, on the 7th of November, 1865. These officers held over till the expiration of the time for which they were elected. The ( ). and M., formerly called the Springfield and S. E. R. R., runs diagonally through the township, entering it on sec. 6 and leaving it on sec. 36. There are two stations in this township on the line of the road, Owaneco and Millersville. That part of the township lying south of Locust Creek forms a part of the territory of what is termed " Buckeye Prairie." It derived its name from a number of emigrants from Ohio, the Buckeye state, settling in this prairie. Its first settler on the Cottonwood Forks was Martin Overholt, in the fall of 1851. He built the first house, and moved into it in an unfinished state, for a time affi)rding only a pretext for shelter from the wintry blasts ; it was situated on the west half of south-west ipiarter section twenty-nine. The house is still standing, and now owned by B. C. Cochran ; it was near the " Buckeye school-house."

Passage source: History of Christian County, Illinois, published 1880.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Locust Township.

Fires near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Millersville in 2009, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 March 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	RAILROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Christian County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Millersville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Pana Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Christian County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Owaneco	2.9 miles	11
Rosamond	4.9 miles	11
Dunkel	5.2 miles	11
Velma	5.9 miles	10
Pana	6.0 miles	11
Richwood Manor	6.3 miles	11
Park Manor	6.6 miles	11
Hewittville	6.6 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 422981. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.